Organophosphate esters (OPEs) in plastic food packaging: non-target recognition, and migration behavior assessment.

Organophosphate esters (OPEs) are widely used as plasticizers in plastic food packaging; however, the migration of OPEs from plastic to food is largely unstudied. We do not even know the specific number of OPEs that exist in the plastic food packaging. Herein, an integrated target, suspect, and nontarget strategy for screening OPEs was optimized using ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography-high-resolution mass spectrometry (UHPLC-HRMS).

Dietary intake assessment of known and unknown organophosphate esters (OPEs) in foodstuffs via high-resolution mass spectrometry.

We applied an integrated target, suspect, and non-target screening strategy to analyze known and unknown organophosphate esters (OPEs) in 107 foodstuffs collected from Nanjing City, China, in 2020. Twelve out of 19 target OPEs were detectable in at least one of the analyzed samples. Among the nine food categories, meat samples were contaminated the most severely with a mean ΣOPEs concentration of 68.

High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Screening of Emerging Organophosphate Esters (OPEs) in Wild Fish: Occurrence, Species-Specific Difference, and Tissue-Specific Distribution.

There is a dearth of information regarding the pollution status of emerging organophosphate esters (OPEs) in wild fish. Here, we optimized and validated a quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe (QuEChERS) pretreatment method, which was further applied for target, suspect, and nontarget screening of OPEs in = 48 samples of wild fishes from Taihu Lake (eastern China). This integrated technique allows us to fully identify 20 OPEs, and 9 out of them are emerging OPEs detected in wild fish for the first time.

[Determination of aflatoxins in cashew by high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry].

A method for the determination of four aflatoxins in cashew using high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS) was developed. The sample was extracted with methanol-water (8: 2, v/v) solution, followed by a cleanup procedure with Florisil column. The target compounds were eluted using 5 mL acetone-water-formic acid (96: 3.